Owner's Manual

Reporting 177
Figure 10-1. Custom Reporting in IT Assistant
For example, you can compile a report containing:
• Details of the hardware devices being managed by IT Assistant, including
servers, switches, and storage devices
• BIOS, firmware, and driver versions contained on specific devices
• Other asset or cost of ownership details
You can specify different output formats for any report, such as HTML,
XML, or CSV (comma-separated values). Any customized report template
you create can be saved and used later.
Creating a New Report
To describe IT Assistant’s report capabilities, let us take another look at Jane’s
enterprise.
Among her group of managed systems, she has 50 Dell servers. However, she
is not sure of the type of network interface card installed on her servers. She
can answer that question quickly by using IT Assistant’s reporting tool:
Memory Devices
...
Contact Info
Device Cards
NIC
Device
Memory DIMMs
Server PCI Cards
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